Aliens & UFOs

The Jackie Gleason UFO tale begins with President Nixon inviting him to see aliens at an Air Force Base. He wasn't told any details and was sworn to keep the secret. Check out the Jackie Gleason UFO story.

Richard Sharpe Shaver was a controversial UFO storyteller promoted by magazine editor Ray Palmer in the 1940s. Shave wrote amazing stories about aliens called deros and teros. Some called him a crackpot; some called him a prophet.

Spring Heeled Jack is a legendary English character. He was a mysterious a Victorian-era murderer, leaping from rooftop to rooftop, leaving a trail of tragedy in his wake. Read why some think Spring Heeled Jack may have been an alien humanoid.

The theory of ether ships is one of many UFO theories that seek to explain UFO phenomena. Ether ships have strange properties that allow them to travel widely. Read about ether ships and where they might come from.

Both skeptics and believers spend time researching UFO reports and explaining UFOs as natural or supernatural events, whether meteor or balloon or optical allusion or good old-fashioned mystery. Read more about explaining UFOs.

Since humans have observed strange phenomena, they have tried to explain them. UFO theories vary as widely in their credibility as in their imagination. Learn about theories of UFOs, aliens, spaceships, and the government.

In the early 20th century, wherever there were "flying saucers," there was also ridicule, dished out to anyone courageous or foolish enough to defy the orthodoxy. How involved were the government researchers in UFO research--and what did they find?